The Edge of Seventeen

DINE-IN at the MOVIES – New DVD Releases | By Peter Vonder Haar – As long as we have teenagers, we’ll have coming of age stories. And as long as they’re as genuine and earnest as in Kelly Fremon Craig’s Edge of Seventeen, we’ll happily keep watching. The movie chronicles an especially...

Loving

DINE-IN at the MOVIES – New DVD Releases | By Peter Vonder Haar – As long as we have teenagers, we’ll have coming of age stories. And as long as they’re as genuine and earnest as in Kelly Fremon Craig’s Edge of Seventeen, we’ll happily keep watching. The movie chronicles an especially...

Collateral Beauty

Family Night at the Movies | By Christopher Hill – The holiday season is a time of joy for many but a time of deep reflection and sorrow for others. Grief can take many forms, but none can be deeper than the loss of a child. When a parent’s light of the world goes out, those who remain are cast adrift....

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Family Night at the Movies | By Christopher Hill – The summer movie season arrived a bit early this year with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. This film is a continuation of the 2013 film Man of Steel. During that movie, we discovered Superman, and in its final act, we saw the destruction that a...

PAN

FAMILY NIGHT AT THE MOVIE | By Christopher Hill – There is a growing trend in Hollywood to take a beloved, childhood animated feature film and recreate it as a live-action spectacular. Earlier this year, Disney had great success with Cinderella. Now, Warner Brothers is hoping to take J.M. Barrie’s...

Summer Theater Review

FAMILY NIGHT AT THE MOVIE | By Christopher Hill – W ith the summer movie season in full swing, the question this month is not which movie to see but where to see it. As I grew up, movie theaters were cookie cutter copies of themselves and devoid of much personality. Over the past few decades, movie...

The Spongebob Movie – Sponge out of Water – 3D

By Christopher Hill – Are you ready, readers? Aye, aye, reviewer! I can’t hear you! Aye, aye, reviewer! Ooooooooooh Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants! A marketer’s dream of a cash  grab is he! SpongeBob SquarePants! If nautical nonsense be somethingyou wish, SpongeBob...

Dolphin Tale 2

By Christopher Hill – After a summer filled with aliens, monsters and computer simulated mayhem, Warner Brothers aims to inspire with their latest sequel, Dolphin Tale 2. The original Dolphin Tale featured a true story of a dolphin named Winter, who was rescued thanks to a caring recovery team, then...

How to Train Your Dragon 2

FAMILY NIGHT AT THE MOVIE – By Christopher Hill Cartoon movies used to be a child medium targeting wide-eyed youth with less discriminating tastes than their eye-rolling guardians. No longer. The past two decades have shown a multitude of films providing as much enjoyment to the kids as the adults who...

The Amazing Spiderman

By Christopher Hill – And along came a spider . . . For over fifty years, fans have marveled over the evolution of puny Peter Parker to the masked super hero Spider-Man. In each portrayal, he is an everyman living in the extraordinary world of the extreme. In the second installment of the rebooted film...